ESRI announced that it has partnered with 3DR, a leading US drone data company, to expand ESRI’s current drone imagery offering, Drone2Map for ArcGIS, with an end-to-end enterprise drone data and analytics solution for ESRI’s ArcGIS platform. Click below to read more.
Students of the history of cartography are invited to submit papers for the 2020 Ristow Prize competition. Undergraduate, graduate, and first-year postdoctoral students of any nationality are eligible to compete. Papers must be in English, not exceeding 7500 words, and should be submitted digitally as a PDF document to kaparker18th@gmail.com by 1 June 2020. Appropriate illustrations, especially maps, are encouraged. The winning essay will receive a cash prize of $1000 and will be published in The Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. The prize, named in honor of the late Dr. Walter W. Ristow, is sponsored by the Washington Map Society of Washington, D. C. For more information, including a list of previous winners, go to the website www.WashMapSociety.org or contact Dr. Katherine Parker at kaparker18th@gmail.com.
There are some ArcGIS users that export their maps to an Adobe format so a graphic artist can finish it up. Now inside Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator you can import data-driven maps with ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud. Check out the video below and read the Seattle Times case study.
Reminds me of my digitizing days!
Registration for the CalGIS 2020 conference in Long Beach next year is now open. Check out their website and register today!
Twenty years ago, Ralph Nader suggested to Jack Dangermond that GIS deserved its own day as a means for outreach, celebration, and awareness building. Read more about it here.
Happy GIS Day to all those that are celebrating GIS Day!
GIS Day 2019 is almost upon us. If you have an event and want to get the word out, send an announcement request through the About page and I will get it posted right away.
Here is one for the City of Irvine. They are celebrating GIS Day on November 14.
The big one at LA County will happen on November 13.
GIS Day will be celebrated at a number of colleges like: Pierce College, CSUN, and USC.
Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative (CIRGIS) will have GIS Day on December 6 at Ventura College. The keynote speaker will be Michael Goodchild.
Also make sure to register your event on the GIS Day website.
If you work with GIS in a local government, you usually do not get to try out some of those more interesting map projections. If you deal with world data, then you might get to use them. Like this one, the Rectified Skew Orthomorphic:
With ArcGIS 10.7.1 and ArcGIS Pro 2.4, you have access to 68 unique map projection algorithms and another 30 variations, 98 in total! Check out this story map showing a gallery of the 68 supported map projections, from Aitoff to Winkel Tripel.
CGIA has posted that there are two new NASA ARSET training webinars that you can attend if you are interested. One is “New Sensor Highlight: ECOSTRESS” and the other is “SAR for Disasters and Hydrological Applications”. Visit the CGIA website for more information about these webinars.
Just a reminder that the ESRI Ocean and Atmospheric GIS Forum will be starting tomorrow.
In February and March 2020, you can enjoy the CalGIS conference, Geodesign Summit, and ESRI Developer Summit. Check out all conferences from the GIS/Mapping Conferences page.
Looks like a brush fire erupted in Simi Valley. Check out this interactive map from the Ventura County Emergency Operations Center to see mandatory/voluntary evacuation areas as well as power shutoff areas.
GOES-West Satellite image as of 10am:
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